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Guardian, June 01, 2014
▶ WHO'S IN CONTROL? -- NATION STATE OR GLOBAL CORPORATIONS?
"By many measures, corporations are more central players in global affairs than nations," writes Benjamin Barber in Jihad vs McWorld. "We call them multinational but they are more accurately understood as postnational, transnational or even anti-national. For they abjure the very idea of nations or any other parochialism that limits them in time or space." "We are in government but not in power," said Lula's close aide, Dominican friar Frei Betto. "Power today is global power, the power of the big companies, the power of financial capital." http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/control-nation-states-corporations-autonomy-neoliberalism
AATTP, March 26, 2014
-▶ THINK YOU HAVE CHOICES? THINK AGAIN: THESE CORPORATIONS CONTROL THE WORLD http://aattp.org/think-you-have-choices-think-again-these-corporations-control-the-world/
Jan 25, 2013 World Economic Forum
▶ WORLD BECOMING "UNGOVERNABLE" - GLOBAL CORPORATIONS ARE REPLACING THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS http://www.weforum.org/news/world-becoming-ungovernable-says-peres
The Guardian, George Monbiot, November 11, 2013
-▶ IT'S BUSINESS THAT REALLY RULES US NOW http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/business-rules-lobbying-corporate-interests
Huffington Post UK, January 09, 2014
▶ WHICH BIG AMERICAN BUSINESSES ARE WORTH MORE THAN ENTIRE COUNTRIES? (TABLE) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/09/us-companies-worth-countries_n_4566707.html
Truthout, March 19 ,2015
-▶ HOW CORPORATIONS RUN CONGRESS
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29760-how-corporations-run-congress-a-talk-with-ryan-grim
CommonDreams, October 30, 2014
▶ CORPORATIONS ACT TO MAKE CONGRESS A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIDARY http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/30/corporations-act-make-congress-wholly-owned-subsidiary
Alternet, December 08, 2014
-▶ SWEET DEAL: CORPORATIONS GET $760 FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR EVERY DOLLAR THEY SPEND ON ELECTIONS http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/sweet-deal-corporations-get-760-government-every-dollar-they-spend-elections
NationofChange, September 12, 2014
▶ BIG BUSINESS BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS TO CONTINUE BUYING ELECTIONS IN THE U.S. http://www.nationofchange.org/big-business-billionaires-continue-buying-elections-us-141052356
VIDEO REPORT
PBS Newshour, September 25, 2014
HOW BILLIONAIRES ARE DICTATING AMERICAN POLITICAL DEBATE AND POLICY? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/are-billionaires-dictating-american-political-debate/
THE 2015 WORLD'S BILLIONAIRES LIST
http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
New York Times, March 25,2015
-▶ TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP SEEN AS DOOR FOR FOREIGN SUITS AGAINST U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/business/trans-pacific-partnership-seen-as-door-for-foreign-suits-against-us.html?_r=0
-▶ OBAMA'S SECRETIVE TRDE PACTS MOVING US TOWARDS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AS CSR AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS NEGOTIATED AWAY http://sco.lt/5G9V0T
The Guardian, December 12, 2014
-▶ ON TAMING CORPORATE POWER http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/12/guardian-view-on-taming-corporate-power
NationofChange, July 27, 2014
-▶ THE EMPIRE ECONOMY DOES NOT SERVE THE ECONOMY OF PEOPLE http://www.nationofchange.org/empire-economy-does-not-serve-economy-or-people-1406466461
Indiana Public Media, February 27, 2015
▶ FOOD AND AG LOBBYISTS REAP SEATS AT CONGRESSIONAL TABLE
http://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/food-ag-lobbyists-seats-congressional-table/
NPR, November 17, 2014
▶ TOP SPENDERS ON CAPITOL HILL PAY BILLIONS, RECEIVE TRILLIONS. The Sunlight foundation took the 200 corporations most active in Washington, analyzed the years 2007-2012 and applied several metrics: what the companies got in federal contracts and other federal support, what they spent on lobbying, how much their executives and political action committees gave in campaign contributions. http://www.npr.org/2014/11/17/364591114/top-spenders-on-capitol-hill-pay-billions-receive-trillions
RT Business, March 04, 2015
▶ BP CEO GETS 35% PAY RISE IN 2014 - FREEZES PAY OF ITS 84,000 WORKFORCE AROUND THE WORLD. Dudley's remuneration rose from $10.17 million in 2013 to $12.74 million last year, according to BP’s annual report released Tuesday. He also received $9.8 million in share awards. In January the company cuts its capital spending program and imposed a salary freeze... http://rt.com/business/237617-bp-dudley-remuneration-rise/
Truthout, December 08, 2014
-▶ THE WAGES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM http://truth-out.org/news/item/27877-the-wages-of-global-capitalism
Institute for Policy Studies, November 13, 2014
-▶ REPORT: FLEECING UNCLE SAM. A growing number of corporations spend more on executive compensation than federal income taxes. http://www.ips-dc.org/fleecing-uncle-sam/
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, January 20, 2015
-▶ AGRIBUSINESS AND FOOD CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE
http://iatp.org/blog/201501/agribusiness-and-food-corporations-are-not-people
Compass, November 03, 2014
-▶ CORPORATIONS AREN'T PEOPLE AND THEY AREN'T NATION STATES, EITHER http://blogs.sierraclub.org/compass/2014/11/corporations-arent-people-and-they-arent-nation-states-either.html
Grist, March 05,2015
▶ WALMART'S NEW "GREEN" "SUSTAINABLE" PRODUCT LABEL IS THE MOST MISLEADING YET http://grist.org/business-technology/walmarts-new-green-product-label-is-the-most-misleading-yet/
VIDEO REPORT
"BEYOND GDP"
The Search For a New Economic System -- With Meaning
Mongabay, January 25, 2015
-▶ NEW REPORT: WORLD MUST CHANGE MODEL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH TO AVERT ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0125-hance_nef.html
Guardian Sustainable Business, January 23, 2015
▶ LET'S FACE IT: WE HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN OUR ECONOMY AND OUR FUTURE: Forget Davos. It’s time for a social movement that pressures governments and businesses to prioritize quality of life over economic growth http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/23/lets-face-it-we-have-to-make-the-choice-between-our-economy-and-our-future
RETURN OF DEBTORS' PRISON IN USA
IMPOVERISHED JAILED FOR INABILITY TO PAY FINES OR OLD DEBTS : INEQUALITY WIDENS http://sco.lt/68dlAX
ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR
CORPORATE PROFITS HIT RECORD HIGH WHILE WORKER WAGES HIT RECORD LOW (GRAPHS) http://sco.lt/856Acb
▶ POPE FRANCIS: "NOT TO SHARE WEALTH WITH THE POOR IS TO STEAL". http://sco.lt/98y1L7
Pioneers Post, December 12, 2014
-▶ 'HAVE BRITAIN'S BUSINESSES BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE MOB?"
http://www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/20141211/have-britains-businesses-been-taken-over-the-mob
The Guardian, George Monbiot, August 12, 2012
-▶ THE PRELUDE TO THE GREATEST PRIVATISATION SINCE ENCLOSURE -- PUTTING A PRICE ON THE RIVER AND RAIN
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/06/price-rivers-rain-greatest-privatisation
PRIVATIZING EVERYTHING
THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE "PARTNERSHIP"
PROFITS BEFORE HEALTH
Guardian Environment, February 03 2015
▶'SUPPRESSED' EU REPORT COULD HAVE BANNED 31 HARMFUL HORMONE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS/PESTICIDES WORTH BILLIONS -- UNDER PRESSURE FROM BIG CHEMICAL FIRMS
HuffPost Politics, December 13, 2014
-▶ SEN ELIZABETH WARREN RIPS CITIGROUP FOR WEAZLING WALL STREET GIVEAWAY INTO GOVERNMENT SPENDING BILL http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/elizabeth-warren-citigroup-bill_n_6318446.html
The Hill, December 08, 2014
-▶ FOSSIL FUEL LOBBYISTS TAKE AIM AT ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS -- EMBOLDENED BY GOP CONTROL OF CONGRESS
ClimateProgress, March 02, 2015
▶ TRANSCANADA IS SEIZING PEOPLE'S LAND TO BUILD KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/01/3625804/keystone-kelo-eminent-domain-property/
THE UNITED STATES OF 'ALEC':
SHAPING AND CONTROLLING SPECIAL INTEREST LEGISLATION
ONE STATE, ONE CITY AT A TIME
Guardian, December 08, 2014
-▶ TAMING CORPORATE POWER: THE KEY POLITICAL ISSUE OF OUR AGE http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/08/taming-corporate-power-key-political-issue-alternative
-▶ CORPORATE POWER, A GLOBAL COUP : THE RULES http://therules.org/corporate-power-global-coup/
Peak Prosperity, December 03, 2014
-▶ OIL AND THE GLOBAL SLOWDOWN: We are being driven by our system of money, we serve it not the other way around, which is a tragedy of both epic and comic proportions. http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/89380/oil-and-global-slowdown
Alternet, November 21, 2014
-▶ THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME A CLEARING HOUSE FOR BIG MONEY. Health insurers, media and telecommunications, retailers, Big Pharma – no wonder Washington’s K Street is lobbying’s road to Paradise.
http://www.alternet.org/our-government-has-become-clearing-house-big-money
HOW DEREGULATION IS DESTROYING SOCIETY
AS THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER
June 29, 2013 Common Dreams
▶ BELIEVE IT OR NOT - 13 MIND-BLOWING FACT ABOUT AMERICA'S TAX-DODGING CORPORATIONS http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/29
September 9, 2013 Washington Post
▶ HOW THE CULT OF SHAREHOLDER VALUE WRECKED AMERICAN BUSINESS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/09/how-the-cult-of-shareholder-value-wrecked-american-business/
May 10, 2013 Harvard Business Review
▶ PARTING WAYS WITH PUBLIC TRADING http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/05/parting_ways_with_public_tradi.html
Harvard Business Review, May 15, 2014
- ▶ TAKING BUSINESS BACK FROM WALL STREET: THE DANGERS OF MANAGING COMPANIES FOR SHAREHOLDERS http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/05/taking-business-back-from-wall-street/
Common Dreams, October 24, 2014
▶ BILL MOYERS: GRASSROOTS PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT MUST RISE TO CHALLENGE CORPORATE CONTROL http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/24/bill-moyers-grassroots-pro-democracy-movement-must-rise-challenge-corporate-control
Washington Post, June 27, 2014
▶ SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN SAYS THE U.S. ECONOMY IS RIGGED: YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED WHO AGREES WITH HER http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/27/elizabeth-warren-says-the-american-economy-is-rigged-many-conservatives-agree/
A VIP READ:
THE ECONOMICS AND MORALITY OF CURBING SPECULATION IN FOOD, WATER AND VITAL RESOURCES
WATCH
"ZOMBIE POLITICS AND CASINO CAPITALISM"
Moyers & Company
▶ Scholar Henry Giroux says America's current political system is leading to a culture where people are so focused on surviving, they become like 'the walking dead.' A Culture Driven By Lust for Money and Power http://billmoyers.com/segment/henry-giroux-on-zombie-politics/
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VIDEO REPORT
LOBBYING
MURKY BUSINESS OR DEMOCRATIC NECESSITY?
THE END OF FEDERAL, STATE GOVERNMENTS
THE RISE OF CORPORATOCRACY
10 FRIGHTENING PROMISED BY GOP SENATE CANDIDATES SECRETLY TAPED AT KOCH BROTHERS SUMMIT http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/10-frightening-promises-gop-senate-candidates-secretly-taped-koch-brothers-summit
▶ MODERN SLAVERY WILL CONTINUE IF CORPORATIONS KEEP PASSING THE BUCK: THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN http://sco.lt/87TMnJ
▶ THE WORLD IS SITTING ON A CONSUMPTION TIME BOMB http://sco.lt/7sR3eT
INVESTIGATION
Foreign Policy, July 11, 2014
WHEN WALL STREET WENT TO AFRICA
A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/11/bruce_wrobel_cameroon_palm_oil_herakles_greenpeace_logging
CNBC News, November 20, 2014
▶ OBESITY AS A BUSINESS: HOW MUCH OBESITY IS COSTING US. INVESTORS SEE GENEROUS PROFITS IN OBESITY EPIDEMIC
Our expanding waistlines are costing the global economy almost as much to deal with as smoking and military conflict, according to a new report by the McKinsey Global Institute. The annual global bill for obesity for lost productivity and treating conditions like diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers is $2 trillion. That’s nearly as much as the $2.1 trillion smoking or war and conflict costs the global economy, a group of analysts at the research institute concluded. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102203044
▶ BIG PHARMA, BIG BUCKS: ENDING DRUG MONOPOLIES, MEGA PROFITS AND STRANGLEHOLD ON PATENTS -- PEOPLE ARE DYING http://sco.lt/5WVBkP
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HOW MEGA BANKS DROVE A MACK TRUCK THRU A LOOPHOLE TO DOMINATE AND CONTROL GLOBAL POLITICS, INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY
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WATCH
Vandana Shiva
FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS 2013
DOES GDP GROWTH = POVERTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M3WJQbnHKc
▶ ECONOMIC SUCCESS ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH TO IMPROVE OUR WELL=BEING http://sco.lt/5T6cfh
The Guardian, November 1, 2013
-▶ HOW ECONOMIC GROWTH HAS BECOME ANTI-LIFE - Vandana Shiva. An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/01/how-economic-growth-has-become-anti-life
Real News One, June 10, 2014
-▶ PUTTING THE ECONOMY BEFORE THE ENVIRONMENT IS ENVIRONMENTAL VANDALISM AND SUICIDAL http://realnewsone.com/2014/06/10/putting-the-economy-before-the-environment-is-environmental-vandalism/
▶ FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL: OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY? http://sco.lt/8Y7sK9
- ▶ WHY GOOGLE AND SONY ARE TURNING TO NATURE TO INSPIRE THEIR LEADERS http://sco.lt/5SDsGH
▶ SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT? http://sco.lt/5x2tqz
VIDEO
-▶ FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS, INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS, NULLIFYING LAND RIGHTS, CREATING DEPENDENCY AND POVERTY ON A GLOBAL SCALE http://sco.lt/4l725B
▶ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORPORATE PALM OIL -- IN ONE SHORT VIDEO -- DEFORESTATION, ECOCIDE http://sco.lt/6ni33R
▶ UKRAINE: THE MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATE ANNEXATION http://sco.lt/5JyvoH
Euractive, November 17, 2014
-▶ FRENCH GOVERNMENT WILL NOT SIGN TTIP AGREEMENT IN 2015 Matthias Fekl, France's Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, has made it clear that France will not support the inclusion of the Investor State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS) in a potential TTIP agreement. The ISDS is a point of heated debate between the EU and the United States. This mechanism could give companies the opportunity to take legal action against a state whose legislation has a negative impact on their economic activity. http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/french-government-will-not-sign-ttip-agreement-2015-310037
Transnational Institute, October 13, 2014
-▶ CORPORATE POWER: EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY REJECTS TTIP, CETA AND TISA http://www.tni.org/article/european-civil-society-rejects-ttip-ceta-and-tisa
-- WATCH --
Documentary:
May 3, 2011 FarmlandGrab
"PLANET FOR SALE"
BIG AG BUYING UP WORLD'S FERTILE LAND
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/18542
▶ FOOD, SLAVE LABOR, CORPORATE WELFARE AND THE WALMARTIZATION OF AMERICA http://sco.lt/7QbsxN
OUR BIG FOOD MON0POLY
▶ MICHAEL POLLAN THINKS WALL STREET HAS WAY TOO MUCH INFLUENCE OVER WHAT WE EAT http://sco.lt/5kQ8Lh
▶ WALL STREET, CORPORATIONS BUYING UP AMERICAN & FOREIGN FARMLAND, THREATENING FUTURE OF U.S. AND WORLD AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/8mcmbR
Guardian, May 28, 2014
▶ CORPORATE STRANGLEHOLD OF FARMLAND A RISK TO WORLD FOOD SECURITY, STUDY SAYS. Small farmers are being squeezed out as mega-farms and plantations gobble up their land http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/28/farmland-food-security-small-farmers
Action Aid Report, May 23, 2014
▶ GLOBAL POLICIES ENCOURAGE LAND GRABBING AND WORSEN HUNGER AND POVERTY. “Allowing land to become vehicles for wealthy corporations and individuals to become richer while pushing vulnerable rural people into poverty and hunger is unjust, unwise and unethical,” it said in the report. http://www.trust.org/item/20140523061928-bn12w/
▶ LAND GRABS: HOW FOREIGN "INVESTMENTS" ARE REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, LAND AND WATER ACROSS THE GLOBE
▶ BIOFUELS LAND RUSH. WHY POVERTY? THE UGLY RISE OF MONOCULTURE FARMING AND GLOBALIZED FOOD http://sco.lt/5z3gzB
WRECKING THE OCEAN ECOSYSTEM:
CORPORATE OVERFISHING, COLLAPSING FIHERIES, OCEAN DEPENDENT SPECIES STARVING
March 23, 3012 - The Ecologist
THICH NHAT HANH
MAYBE IN 100 YEARS THERE WILL BE NO MORE HUMANS ON THE PLANET
Economy Watch, January 02, 2014
-▶ WHY SOUTH AFRICA (AND OTHER DEVELOPING NATIONS) IS CANCELLING FOREIGN INVESTMENT DEALS http://www.economywatch.com/features/south-africa-cancelling-foreign-investment.02-01.html
WATCH
"DEATH ON A CORPORATE FACTORY FARM" - HBO SPECIAL"
Alternet, January 26, 2013
▶ NEW AG-GAG LAW: REPORTING CORPORATE FACTORY FARM ABUSES TO BE CONSIDERED "ACT OF TERRORISM" http://www.alternet.org/environment/shocking-reporting-factory-farm-abuses-be-considered-act-terrorism-if-new-laws-pass
READ
Guardian, November 19, 2014
▶ SECRET DOCUMENTS REVEALED: KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE COMPANY'S PR BLITZ TO SAFEGUARD ITS BACK UP PLAN -- HORRIFYING. Energy East strategy drawn up by public relations firm Edelman calls for thousands of activists, major online campaign and digging into background of opposition groups as methods TransCanada Corporation should use to ‘play offence’ against its detractors
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"THE DIRTY TRUTH" TAR SANDS OIL EXTRACTION -
THE DIRTIEST OIL ON EARTH
This goes along with my last weeks article on power while last week it was power of the individual this is power of corporation
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